Key Points
Mega agricultural facility at Mihan will process 800 tonnes daily
Plant focuses on zero-waste orange processing
Gadkari and Fadnavis to inaugurate facility this Sunday
Multiple fruit juice and pulp production planned
Acharya Balkrishna, who provided this information at a press conference at Mihan, Nagpur, on Friday, stated that the new agricultural revolution of Patanjali will bring prosperity to farmers. He further mentioned that this facility is a single point of plant food processing and the largest unit in Asia. "We feel proud to have established it," the managing director said, as per a statement.
"Although there were many obstacles in starting this plant, including the Corona period, the day finally arrived that the farmers of the area had been waiting for years," he noted at the press conference. He informed reporters that the formal inauguration of the Mihan plant will be performed this Sunday by Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Acharya shared that the plant has a processing capacity of 800 tonnes per day. "Our plant works on a zero-waste system. Our operation starts with orange peel processing, where we extract volatile and fragrance oil," the MD explained. "Today, almost every farmer of every village of this area is in our contact... Our priority is to provide employment to the local people and make the local farmers prosperous," he added.
"The quality of our products is top class, and the whole world market is open for us. However, our priority is to provide the best products of export quality to the people of our country." He mentioned that based on the availability of raw materials, juices of orange, lime, amla, pomegranate, guava, grapes, gourd, carrot, as well as pulp of mango and orange and paste of onion and tomato will also be produced at the Mihan plant.
